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For more than half a century people have marveled at the sweeping forms of the Trans World Airlines terminal at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, lined up to enter the St. Louis Gateway Arch, and admired the mid-century modern lines of Knoll's Womb and Tulip chairs. Yet few outside the architecture profession can name the designer of these wide-ranging projects: the Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen (1910-1961). Saarinen made the cover of TIME magazine in 1956, heralded as a key practitioner of postwar modernism. He counted among his clients several of the world's most powerful corporations and educational institutions (among them General Motors, IBM, Yale University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and pioneered the development of new materials and building technologies. Yet in the decades following his death, interest in his work waned and much of his archive became difficult to accessThis highly anticipated monograph is the first major publication on Eero Saarinen since the early 1960s and fills a significant gap in Saarinen scholarship. Written in an accessible, journalistic style, it will be of interest to architects and students as well as general readers interested in the significant figures of twentieth-century modernism
Contents
Introduction * Chapter 1Table * Chapter 2: Creating Cranbrook: The Cranbrook Schools, Institute of Science, and Academy of Art * Chapter 3: Family Business: The Education of Eero and the Work of Saarinen and Saarinen * Chapter 4: Breaking Away: First Independent Projects and Furniture Designs * Chapter 5: The General Motors Technical Center * Chapter 6: GM Fallout: Corporate Campuses for IBM, Bell Labs, and John Deere * Chapter 7: College Explosion: Campuses for the Modern World at Antioch, Drake, and Brandeis * Chapter 8: The Cutting Edge on Campus: The MIT Auditorium and Chapel, and the Yale Hockey Rink * Chapter 9: College Buildings in Context: Concordia, Chicago, Morse and Stiles Colleges at Yale * Chapter 10: Building the Basics in a Small Midwestern Town: A Bank, a House, and a Church in Columbus, Indiana * Chapter 11: Big Ambitions in Big Cities Abroad: American Embassies in London and Oslo * Chapter 12: Big Ambitions in New York: the Vivian Beaumont Repertory Theatre at Lincoln Center and the CBS Building * Chapter 13: Symbolizing Modernity: The St. Louis Gateway Arch and the Milwaukee War Memorial * Chapter 14: Taking Flight: The TWA Terminal and the Athens and Dulles International Airports * Conclusion
